Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-14

eW 9aURm ga1lG THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court Civil Ssde-Judee Stoddard.
 There was brief session of the court yes- terday morning and the judge granted si- vorce to Josephine Niehbuhr of Meriden from Jeremiah Niehbuhr. They were mar
 ried in June, 1879. The custody of the two minor children was awarded to the plaintiff. Court then adjourned.
 Court of common Pleas Criminal | S1de-Judse Deming. 1 Before Judge Deming and the bar meeting | in this court yesterday, Attorney Hamilton
 in behalf of-his client, Mrs. Card, asked for | an immediate trial of the case and the sum-
 moning of another jury to try it. His client had been assailcd as blaekmailer by Mir. Foot's attorney, and MT. Foot had persecut-
 ed her and sought to oppress her, when he | had in his hands this lady's earnings and savings of a lifetime. MT. Hamilton ap-
 pealed strongly for an immediate oppertuni- | ty to clear the fog and mist which the de- I | tiff's case. MT. Bennett Mr. Doolittles | partner, said in reply that the defense said 1 Mrs. Cards case was one of blackmail. | Judge Deming said there seemed no occa- | sion for summoning another jury this month, l though there should be an early trial of the
 case, and it would be tried in June. l Court of Common PIeas-Civil Side l Judge Studley.
 Judge Studley yesterday rendered judg- l ment in the case of George A. Basserman vs | J. H.. McMahon for the plaintiff to recover | $268.4 and costs. This was suit against a
 bondsman of an agent of Brewer Basserman | in Meriden, whose accounts were short. The suit was to recover from the bondsman. Probate Court-Judge Robertson. Judge Robertson, of the Probate court, yesterday appointed Earliss P. Arvine and | Hobart L. Hotchkiss commissioners on the | insolyent estate of John w. Dwight. | City Court Criminal Side Judge Pickett.
 Thomas Goodman, alias Williams, begging,
 discharged; Daniel OConnor and Alex | ander Adams, vagrancy, judgment suspend | ed; Emma Warris, breach of the peace, con- ! tinued to May IA.
 Court Notes.
 Arguments were made yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas before Judge Stud | ley in the Beecher-Ackerman suit against
 August Blenner.
 The suit of McMahon & Wren of Bridge port vs. George D. Harris has been settled | out of court.
 The claim of Michael Wrinn of Leitrim, Ireland, of s, ,000 against his brothers es-
 tate has been disallowed by Commissioners Shanley and Plunkett. He will receive merely his share as one of the heirs. General State News. MAJOR KINNEY.
 Major J. c. Kinney, commander of the Governors Foot Guard, of Hartford, has been invited to serve on the staff of Major General 0. 0. Augur, U. s. A., during the national military encampment at Washing ton, from May 23d to 30th. General Augur will have command of the camp, and Gene ral Albert Ordway is chief of staff. AT PARLoR ROCK. Mr. W. NJ. Harris, of Bridgeport, has been placed in charge of Parlor Rock Grove, the Housatonic railroads pleasure resort few miles north of Bridgeport. Electric lights will be introduced and excursion trains run from Bridgeport during the summer even ings.
 THE RAILROADS.
 BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, May 13.-F. M. Cogill, who has been supervisor or bridges and docks on the Harlem branch of the Consolidated road, has been appointed by President Stew enson supervisor of bridges on the Housa- tonic road. MT. Cogill will assume his duties on the Housatonic Monday morning, May 16. And now 'tthey say" that rich New York 6 New England men are "quietly picking up" the stock of the Consolidated road wherever offered At the last stock auction in New York New York stock brought 2305s and two or three years ago it was selling at 167.
 THE LONG BEACH FIGHT.
 It looks as if the fight between W. S. Nichols and the town of Stratford relative to the possession of leased property on Long Beach would be amicably settled. MT. Nichols name is the only one that has ap- peared as defendant in the case, but it may be we'll to state that he is acting in the inter 1 est of capitalists who represent half 8 million | of dollars and had Stratford continued the l fight they would have found it costly affair. ! They have called town meeting for May 16 ! to act upon the Long Beach matter and at ! the time it is expected that matters will be | satisfactorily adjusted. Bridgeport News. A NEW LONDON MAN SHOOTS MATE OF A
 STEAMBOAT AND RUNS AWAY WITH A YACHT.
 SAG HARBoR, L. l., May 13.-About 8 | o'clock this morning John Hayden, resi- | dent of New London, Conn.,, who was pas |
  relied with the first mate, Peter Gamen, | whom he shot at twice with @ revolver, one | of the shots taking effect in Gamen's leg and l caused serious wound. The steamer was at l the dock at the time of the shooting and | Hayden after the shooting ran off the vessel I and took a small yacht which was lying near ! by in the bay and set sail for the east. Two | men from the steamboat and two constables l from this village gave chase in another boat | and after an exciting pursuit for five miles | overhauled Hayden, who was brought back | and arraigned before Justice Bisgood, who | committed him to await the action of the | grand jury on a charge of felonious as- sault. MRS. BETSY AVERILL CELEBRATES HER HUN
 DREDTH BIRTHDAY.
 The Litchfeld Enquirer or May 12 has an account of the celebration of the Tooth birth | day of Mrs. Betsy Averill, which took place | at the residence of her son, Deacon s. J. Averill, in New Preston, May 5. She was | the daughter of Amos Johnson, of South l bury, and was married to Samuel Averill in | 1915. He died in 1884, She has had five | children two of whom suryive), sixteed | grandchildren and twenty-se great grand children and the surviving descendants were all present to congratulate her upon her her centennial s1,onbi birthday; She South Britain in 1908 and was one of the earliest Sunday school teachers. She has been @ warm friend of the negro and Indian and was always active in every form of mission work. Her faculties and physi- cal vigor are remarkably we'll preserved. She l enjoys conversation and reading, moves about freely and to considerable extent | looks after her rooms, bedding and clothing. She is thoroughly familiar with the now al most forgotten arts of spinning, weaving and carding. She received some pleasant congratulatory resolutions from the mem- bers of the Connecticut Indian association